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| Occupation | Software Engineer |
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| Introduction | Running Debian Sid for >10 years (now my oldest install was 2001, upgraded ever since thru many disks, processors, motherboards). Ubuntu since installing a pre-beta in 2004. Moved that one (now on a 2012 hard disk) to a new system in January. As my other systems are 64-bit, it was time to upgrade that one from 32-bit. Multiarch made the first few steps easy, but finishing was painful. But now the free software on the system is entirely 64-bit after upgrading package by package using dpkg, apt, and on the fly scripts. Red Hat Linux before 2001 for many years. Slackware before that and SLS before Slackware. Slackware was better than SLS and Redhat Package Manager was much better than tarballs. But dpkg was at least as good or better than RPM, and apt was far better than anything on Redhat ca. Y2K. Rather than do the reinstall to Red Hat Linux 7, like I had installed RHL 6, RHL 5, 4, 3, ... I installed Debian. Debian, dpkg, apt, just works. There is no better package management. Perhaps rpm+yum and pacman may have grown to be about as good, but I'm really not interested unless they solve some significant deficiency instead of re-inventing the dpkg + apt wheel. |
| Interests | Linux, Programming, Python, C/C++, Electronics, Amateur radio, Cars, Investing, Economics, construction, plumbing, electrical systems, HVAC, solar PV, solar thermal, agriculture, liberty, privacy, independence, freedom, Magna Carta, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Debian, Ubuntu, ... |